Real Housewives of Toronto is the latest series to join The Real Housewives franchise, which includes Vancouver, Orange County, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, Beverly Hills, Dallas, Potomac and international additions from England, Australia and New Zealand.

Sometimes these Canadian adaptations of American reality shows can seem a little behind the times. The Real Housewives trend, after all, dates back more than a decade, to 2006, when The Real Housewives of Orange County debuted. And The Real Housewives of Vancouver already aired for two seasons on Slice, in 2012 and 2013.

But shows such as The Amazing Race Canada, Big Brother Canada and MasterChef Canada have continued to find audiences here in more recent times, to varying degrees.

Either way, it will be interesting to see a side of Toronto few of us have access to because, you know, we have real lives to worry about.